The link below takes you to an article from Competence (H+ Hospital Forum) magazine on incidents involving medical devices and a comparison of hospitals' reporting obligations.(Article in German, Summary in French)

Materiovigilance contact person in hospitals

Hospitals are legally obliged to set up a materiovigilance system. As part of this obligation, they must designate someone to be responsible for materiovigilance (materiovigilance contact person) and notify this person to Swissmedic.

An information brochure on materiovigilance in hospitals can be found below:

New materiovigilance contact persons or changes in the contact details of existing registered contact persons must be notified to Swissmedic. This should be done by completing the following form and sending it to: materiovigilance@swissmedic.ch:

Swissmedic also conducts materiovigilance reporting inspections in hospitals. The following document lists key points that may arise during an inspection. It also describes how an inspector might proceed.